Drop in supply, please help :(

Hi ladies, I need some advice please. Lo is 11 weeks old today, I ebf for the first few days until he had a 14% weight loss and advised to top up using ff, which I did. He struggled with weight gain, stayed static etc for 4 weeks ( I brought a double pump as I was so sore!) Then bf support found he had tt. He had it snipped but continued to struggle for a couple of weeks with weight again still topping up (with expressed if pumped enough). He is having approx 3 ff a day atm as I never seem to fill him late morning and evening. I have not been well and been taking antibiotics for 6 out of the 11 weeks. from birth he has gone from 75th percentile and dropped this week to the second (he has put on 1lb 1oz in 3 weeks). when he has ff we do paced feeding and he now has 8oz a time... when I feed him he is hungry 10 mins later and fussing at the boob. I want to get my supply back up as I know its dropped due to ff top up. I am finally feeling better myself too. Any words of wisdom? I just feel that I am not satisfying him anymore and the amount of time he feeds for has got shorter. Plenty of wet nappies and dirty every other day. I really want to ditch the ff if I can.

Also, make sure you drink plenty of water. My supply dropped as I started trainig again and being more active a few weeks ago but picked back up as soon as I started drinking more water. Now, I keep a bottle nearby and keep myself tooped up day and night. Every little help x

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